Posted on 09/07/2015 2:37:39 PM PDT by Elderberry
This is the 114th day of the Twin Peaks Massacre coverup. It is worth noting for two lamentable reasons.
First, the degree to which government officials have been uncooperative, obstructive and evasive about the Massacre is prima facie evidence that there is an official coverup. There was no probable cause to believe that most of the 177, or 182, or so, people arrested that day were guilty of “engaging in organized criminal activity.” There is probable cause to believe that police murdered at least six men and may have attempted to murder 20 more.
The second reason to note the ongoing coverup is the apparent disappearance of what just a few years ago was being called “the investigative impulse” in American journalism. The investigative impulse began, according to Jon Marshall of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, “in the 1600s, when Enlightenment philosophers taught that ‘people have a right to question their leaders.’”
To its inerasable shame, the Waco Tribune-Herald has not noticed the coverup. To its credit, the Houston Chronicle has. “Any time a prosecutor’s office or a politician does not want people talking about something, one should raise a red flag and insist we talk about it,” a law professor named Patrick Metze told the Chronicle this morning. “They may say it is to protect the investigation, but they are protecting themselves from whatever it is that they don’t want us to see or know about.” You can read the entire Chronicle piece here.
Based on information supplied by various sources who believe their lives, careers and pensions are in actual danger and who have spoken with The Aging Rebel under conditions of either “off the record” or “deep background,” this page will continue to report that the Twin Peaks Massacre was the result of a contrived and avoidable confrontation between members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club and the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. The Aging Rebel believes that the confrontation was engineered by and anticipated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Texas Department of Public Safety and a Waco area law enforcement agency that was not the Waco Police Department. The Aging Rebel also believes that these police agencies, and possibly the Waco Police Department, began physically preparing for an armed confrontation to include the use of deadly force in the Twin Peaks restaurant parking lot at or before dawn on May 17. And finally, this page believes the Massacre was captured in its entirety by at least 44 video cameras. Investigating This Mess
The Associated Press defines information gained “off the record” as information that “cannot be used for publication.” The same news agency and most publications define “deep background” as information that “can be used but without attribution. The source does not want to be identified in any way, even on condition of anonymity.” Generally, information gained off the record can only be used after being substantiated by additional independent sources. Off the record information tells reporters where to llok and what to look for.
Off the record information about federal police actions is often substantiated by filing Freedom of Information Act requests with, for example, the Disclosure Division of the ATF. The information requests involving bikers are almost routinely denied on the grounds of either what the FOIA Act calls “Exemption Seven” or one of three “Exclusions.”
The exempt information is defined as, “Certain types of information compiled for law enforcement purposes.” The three exclusions are: One, “Subject of a criminal investigation or proceeding is unaware of the existence of records concerning the pending investigation or proceeding and disclosure of such records would interfere with the investigation or proceeding;” two, “Informant records maintained by a criminal law enforcement agency and the individual’s status as an informant is not known; and three, “Existence of FBI foreign intelligence, counterintelligence or international terrorism records are classified fact.”
Exclusion three is one reason why motorcycle clubs are frequently described as “transnational gangs.”
Taken together, the exemption and exclusions explain why “gang investigations” are always classified as “ongoing” even when the newest information in those investigations is more than a decade old.
After a FOIA request is denied, large news gathering organizations and some private law firms have the means to bring suit in federal court to discover exempt and excluded information. The Aging Rebel does not have the resources to pursue such lawsuits at this time. This page is aware that many of its conclusions about what happened in Waco on May 17 are unsubstantiated sand have been described as “speculative.” As one 23-year-old reporter recently put it, “A blog favorable to motorcycle clubs citing an undisclosed source…is not credible.”
Credible or not, the authorities in Texas have been blatantly manipulating public opinion since the day of the Massacre and the Department of Justice has, as yet, not chosen to intervene. One plausible explanation for that inaction is that the Department of Justice has been involved since sometime before May 1.
The Aging Rebel stands by its coverage of the Waco Twin Peaks Massacre and will continue to pursue the story.
“Do you want unwise to be illegal?”
I call them like a see them - OMG clubs are criminal organizations that deal drugs and peddle flesh.
“Do unwise choices merit forfeit of due process and constitutional rights?”
No, absolutely not. However, let’s just be honest. Is it rape if a scantily clad girl gets very drunk and goes to a guys apartment after having her hands all over him? Yes, it could be if she clearly said no, but at some point all of us (whether we admit it or not) no longer see it as the black and white issue that this biker brawl has been made out to be.
Much of what I have read on here has seemingly suggested that the cops (not the OMG clubs) are a criminal organization and there is a big conspiracy on the part of law enforcement to fire on a crowd of innocent restaurant patrons. I don’t buy that based on the eyewitness accounts even if I do have some concerns that due process has been violated.
IBTG!
Should that be a keyword?
Wonderful. ( ? )
It takes 13 paragraphs to report a totally unsubstantiated rumor?
This is typical anti-government BS.
The legal issues here have been long settled. Please reread earlier posts regarding those legal issues and Texas law regarding people acting in consort to achieve a criminal end.
Give it time, Son. Give it time.
The gov't should spend its time controlling the border for drugs and peeps.
It's very likely this is a fast & furious like op.
It took him 13 paragraphs to “report” a totally unsubstantiated rumor, in a matter where he has obviously not read Texas law dealing with such gangs.
Some people should not be allowed internet access!
:)
Thanks. I assume the readers are "up to speed," but realize that is not a good assumption.
The only charge that can possibly stick on the affidavit is conspiracy. Courts have ruled that the affidavit makes no particular allegation of perpetrating assault, murder, or any other crime of violence. The facts in the affidavit are basically:
According to Texas courts, that adds up to probable cause that the accused conspired to commit murder, capital murder, or aggravated assault.
It died in the Clinton Administration and the grave was covered in salt and lit on fire during the Obama Administration.
Could also be BATFE CIs.
Oh my!!! That really hurts. Excuse me while I slink away and weep bitterly.
No, don’t be a crybaby. Be a man. Admit you got caught stirring up shit when you knew there was no legal basis for it.
Gee, who would do that? A Dem-Lib troll trying to discredit FR?
Whodataut!
Oh dear. Now I’m outted. Better get me zotted before I destroy FR.
btw, what was your previous FR name?
The Aging Rebel stands by its coverage of ongoing rumormongering regarding the Waco Twin Peaks Massacre shooting by a bunch of druggie bikers and will continue to pursue the story demonstrate his lack of knowledge of the facts and Texas law, and will also continue to use his rumormongering to solicit donation for his nutzo site.
Preach it N00B! LMFAO
Mr. Little Redboots
Good to know.........
Absolutely He was one of them for sure.
But... Who killed Laura Palmer?
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